EMPRESS / RAINDROP AIR-TRAP MOTHER-OF-PEARL SATIN MINIATURE LAMP, cased lemon yellow, compressed bulge-form font, matching patterned square-form shade with crimped rim, brass collar. Fitted with a period Nutmeg burner, colorless chimney. Circa 1900. 7 1/4" H to top of shade, 3 1/2" H to top of collar, 2 1/4" D base.
Undamaged, shade rim with several spots of minor roughness, one corner with a partially open bubble and fitter with flakes/roughness, each as made, collar with some very light splits. Burner with corrosion and shade ring with light denting, chimney undamaged.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 240, fig. 601; shade parallels fig. 600.
Provenance: From a West Coast private collection.

Undamaged, shade rim with several spots of minor roughness, one corner with a partially open bubble and fitter with flakes/roughness, each as made, collar with some very light splits. Burner with corrosion and shade ring with light denting, chimney undamaged.